Heinz A. Schilling#
| Membership Number: | 2282 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Professor Emeritus
- 1992 Professor of the History of Early Modern History at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- 1982 - 1992 Professor at the University of Giessen
- 1979 - 1982 Professor of early modern history at the University of Osnabrück
- 1977 - 1978 Habilitation
- 1971 - 1979 Assistant and lecturer at the department of medieval history and in early modern history at the newly founded, Faculty of History at the University of Bielefeld
- 1971 Doctorate at the University of Freiburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative history of Europe in the early modern period
- History of political theory
- Early modern European history over the last twenty
- International system
- Reformation and European Confessionalization
- Historical exhibits in museums
- Social and cultural history of Calvinism from the 16th to the 19th centuries
- Early modern modernization of Germany and the Netherlands
- Political and cultural origins of national identity in Europe
- History of the Holy Roman Empire and its constituent territories
- Immigration and minorities in old Europe (Germany, England, the Netherlands)
- Cities and bourgeois life in the early modern period and the transition to the modern world
Honours and Awards
- 2009 honorary doctorate (Dr. theol. honoris causa) from the Theology Faculty of the University of Göttingen
- 2006 12th Stern Lecture Series of the Historical Society of Israel, May 9-16, 2006, Jerusalem
- 2005 member of the Academia Europaea
- 2004 corresponding member of the British Academy
- 2004 - 2005 fellow of the Historisches Kolleg, Munich
- 2003 - 2004 fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
- 2002 Dr.-A.H.-Heineken-Preis for History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- 2001 chair of the Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte (Society for Reformation Research -- German branch)
- 1998 - 1999 chair of the scholarly committee for the European exhibition "1648 – Krieg und Frieden in Europa“, Münster/Osnabrück
- 1996 member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
